On a cage. She shaped the law of the Supreme Court for a quarter of a century. Tel tells how she changed her life and the nation. Shes super human. She impacted the law. It is bizarre to see Justice Ginsburg who is this is very button down person, establishment oriented and loves opera and does not have a radical self notation. Why is she the notorious r. B. G. . She does not speak the loudest voice but shes extraordinary strong. You can imagine, professional boxers are tougher. The toughest i have dealt with is Justice Ginsburg. She dramatically threw her advocacy and later threw her position on the Supreme Court, alter the way this country thinks about gender roles, in a way that opened up opportunities for everyone. In the majestic chambers of the Supreme Court, the law clerks who served Ruth Bader Ginsburg has a unique perspective on the legendary jurists. Theyre the advisers to the justice. With ten thousand cases submitted to the court, the clerks helped the nine justices to decide which one is merit consideration. They are junior justices. As members of this exclusive club, clerks maintain a certain discretion about what goes on behind the scenes. You would never disclose the substance of anything to folks outside. Justice ginsburg had a lot to say about the woman who profoundly impacted not only their lives but those of countless americans. I feel so lucky to have her as a model, her temperament and careful attention to language, her fair dealing with others. See house of representatives she cares about the people with this country. You dont want to let her down. Ill never call her the r word. Ruth. It is always justice and thatll never change. Away from the court, Ruth Bader Ginsburg has become the pop culture icon known as notorious r. B. G. Some die hard fans gotten r. B. G. Tattoos. Why would you make something that cant be removed on yourself . Notorious r. B. G. Is a nickname that i coined. It is sort of encapsulation of Justice Ginsburgs larger than life force she brings to the Supreme Court. It is a reference to the notorious b. I. G. Of the late, great rapper from the 90s, one spoke truth to power and use words to do so. R. B. G. s quiet power was apparent of the moment they arrived to their job interview. I walked into the office for the first time. She was standing there. She does not have a standing desk. I remember struck by both how small she was and how giant she was because shes an absolute icon. The thing about her is she talks very slowly and sldlib sl deliberately. There is often a number of pauses in her conversations. I was careful not to step over her words. I would let three seconds to laugh just to look at her to make sure she was done before responding to any questions. At Public Events like this one at the National Museum of American Jewish history of philadelphia, admirers rallied around the justice. This visit included a tour of a traveling exhibit that chronicles r. B. G. s own life. We talk about your mother here and her roles. Justice ginsburg was born in 1933 in flat bush, brooklyn to nathan and cecilia bader. Nathan immigrated to new york. I am the beneficiary of myself. My father were not able to leave and come here and make a living. Thats america to me. While jews of the u. S. Did not face those rounded up by the nazis during world war ii. The bader family was not protected from prejudice. She recalled seeing no jews all allowed signs because she was y jewish. She was discriminated against which absolutely influenced her to work of people being marginalized. That included woman like her mother, cecilia. She graduated at the age of 15. She never had a chance to go to college because all the familys money went to her oldest Brothers College tuition to cornell. I learned to love the smell of chinese food in those days because the library was one floor above the tiny chinese restaurant. Growing up, Ruth Bader Ginsburg faced a series of emotional hardships. Her older sister was fouryearold when ruth was born but sadly ruth has no memory of maryland because she died of meningitis at the age of six. This was something her parents got over. My mother says every night when our mother came home from work, there was a picture of maryland and he would come and look at the picture and break down crying every night. As ruth enters high school, her mother was diagnosed with cervical cancer. It is something she hid at the time. She didnt want people to feel sorry for her. Two days before ruths graduation, her mother died. As a result of her mothers death, she was unable to speak at her graduation even though she was at the top of the class. The justice honored her mothers memory by getting the education that seylvi cecilia ct and go on transform america for all families. To lead the charge. Good had to be amazing. And amazing had to become the expectation. The drivers feel it every time they get in. The power. Has shifted. I wanted more from my copd medicine thats why ive got the power of 1, 2, 3 medicines with trelegy. The only fdaapproved oncedaily 3in1 copd treatment. Trelegy the power of 1,2,3 trelegy 1,2,3 trelegy woman with trelegy and the power of 1, 2, 3, im breathing better. Trelegy works three ways to open airways, keep them open and reduce inflammation, for 24 hours of better breathing. Trelegy wont replace a rescue inhaler for sudden breathing problems. Trelegy is not for asthma. Tell your doctor if you have a heart condition or high Blood Pressure before taking it. Do not take trelegy more than prescribed. Trelegy may increase your risk of thrush, pneumonia, and osteoporosis. Call your doctor if worsened breathing, chest pain, mouth or tongue swelling, problems urinating, vision changes, or eye pain occur. Think your copd medicine is doing enough . Maybe you should think again. Ask your doctor about oncedaily trelegy and the power of 1, 2, 3. Trelegy, 1,2,3 woman save at trelegy. Com. Reporter after graduating near the top of her high school class, ruth bader entered Cornell University in the fall of 1950. There were four men to every woman. So for parents, cornell was the ideal place to send a girl. If she couldnt find her man she could not find her men there, she was hopeless. There was something amazingly wonderful about this man. He cared that i had a brain. Nine days after she graduated from cornell with a bachelor degree in government, ruth and marty married. Justice ginsburg loved to tell the story of the advise she received from her motherinlaw. Her motherinlaw said the secret to a marriage is always be a little deaf. That turned out to be very good advise not only dealing with marty but even until these days dealing with my current colleagues. Marty provided a counter balance to his sometimes serious spouse. There was one episode at one of her clerk reunions where in the process of putting his arms around her, he taped a sign to the justices back. The sign says her highness, when she realized, she chuckled. I love that story because it is a window into the banter of the heart of their wonderful love affair. She followed him to oklahoma where she was in reserve when she was pregnant. She got demoted. Discrimination was not something that was abstract in her life. It was real and present and made her i think sensitive. From oklahoma the couple moved to boston in 1956 to attend Harvard Law School. Ruth Bader Ginsburg was one of nine women in the program. The deen han had a practice year only have female students to come. The dean asked students there why would they take the place of a male. The justice responded something to talk to my husband about. Of course, she did not meant that. Was she put on the spot and dont know what to say, thats possible. At home there were serious challenges. When their daughter jane was two. Marty was diagnosed with cancer. It was my second year in law school. Martys third year. There was massive surgeries followed by massive radiation. There was no chemo therapy in those days. My routine was i would attend my classes and i would then go to mass general, the hospital where he was in the afternoon and then i started typing the notes that his classmates given me and reading whatever cases. I would read for the next day and maybe i got two hours sleep. Law school alone as a Single Person is incredibly challenging but to do all that is incredible. She developed the habits that allowed her to manage all these different parts of her life successfully. She carried those habits throughout her career. Marty recovered and graduated Harvard Law School on schedule, a year before his wife. Given what he wanted to do and given that he was jewish, there was a few firms he could work at boston. He needed to take a job in new york. They had a young child and he was newly recovered from cancer and so the idea that she would stay in boston was not in the realm of the possible. So she left harvard and went to columbia without having any assurance that she would end up with a degree. Ginsburg graduated number one in her class, yet did not receive a single job offer from a new york law firm. She was essentially discriminated against for three reason, she was a woman, a mother and a jew. That experience helped her realize what feminism was all about. Her Columbia Law School professor, gerald gunther. I am not concerned that shes a woman. Shes got a fouryearold daughter, how can i risk it . I may need her even on a sunday. So dougs proposal was. If you dont give her a chance, i will never recommend another columbia student to you. A lot of highly successful women of her generation understood they have to do everything a little better and cleaner and more flawlessly than the men arnound them if they ar going to be taken seriously and she never stopped working. Serio she never stopped working. You try to stay ahead of the mess but scrubbing still takes time. Now theres powerwash dish spray its the faster way to clean as you go just spray, wipe and rinse it cleans grease five times faster dawn powerwash. Spray, wipe, rinse. Always have been. And always will be. Never letting anything get in my way. Not the doubts, distractions, or voice in my head. And certainly not arthritis. New voltaren provides powerful arthritis pain relief to help me keep moving. And it can help you too. Feel the joy of movement with voltaren. You know limu,g after all these years feel the joy of movement its the ones that got away that haunt me the most. [ squawks ] cause youre not like everybody else. Thats why Liberty Mutual customizes your Car Insurance, so you only pay for what you need. What . Oh, i said. Uh, this is my floor. Nooo only pay for what you need. Liberty. Liberty. Liberty. Liberty. Reporter even after graduating at the top of her law school class, Ruth Bader Ginsburg struggled to find a job. It was after graduating, Ruth Bader Ginsburg struggled to find a job. It was the 1960s. If your boss grabs your ass, it is just to pick a dough. It is nothing that the law needs to be concerned with. That was a mainstream view. In 1963, ginsburg began teaching at ruckers law school. When she became pregnant with her second child, she told no one. I am not going to tell anyone impregnant and the way she got away that was her motherinlaw was one size larger than ruth so her motherinlaw lent her clothes to finish her semester. It was no longer legal to pay women differently than men. When she went to her dean to ask him about this, the response was, well, you have a husband in a highpaying good job. You dont need the money. At home marty was in charge of the familys kitchen. Their daughter joked in their house, daddy did the cooking and mommy did the thinking. There was a certain repertory not particularly good dishes that my mother could put together. Overtime my father took over that role. I remember being invited to their house and marty serving an amazing homemade bagguet. He brought a powerful legal mind to the table. Marty ginsburg was certainly the best tax lawyer in this generation and one of the leading figures in merger and acquisitions law. The married lawyers teamed up on a project, the case that marty found and one that ruth thought may shake up america of gender bias. Our goal in the 70s was to end it was so many things off limits to women, policing, firefighters and flying planes. The victim of the discrimination case the ginsburg took on was not a woman. It was about this guy and he took care of his mother and he wanted to get a tax benefit for the caretaker who he hired to take care of his mother when he was away or unable to be there. The tax code did not recognize males as primary care givers. So combining the forces of Marty Ginsburg and r. B. G. , she argued that was sex discrimination. The United States court of appeals or the tenth circuit eventually agreed. They use that case as a vehicle to explain how gender stereotype actually worked. They dont just hold women back, they actually hold men back. At 39yearold, Ruth Bader Ginsburgs reputation between 1973 and 1978, ginsburg argued six gender discrimination cases before the Supreme Courts all male bench. I knew that i was speaking to men who did not think there was any such thing as gender base discrimination. And my job was to tell them it really exists. You would not want the world to be that way for your granddaughters. In at least two cases that she talked for over ten minutes without ever being interrupted. Sex like race is a visible and immutable. Sex like race has been made the basis for unsufficientjustified least unproved assumptions, concerning an individuals potential to perform or to contribute to society. To change the countrys perception on gender, she found a case with another male plaintiff. He had been barred from receiving his late wifes work benefits. You have a father whose wife has died. He wants to stay home to care for his young son. The laws are set up in a way it is disadventagious for him to do that. He wanted to challenge that law. He wanted to be a stayathome father after his wife as died. So thats just ginsburgs vision of an ideal world of men and women treated equally. Ginsburg was victorious in the wisenfield case. She won five of the six cases she argued in court. When i look back and read those cases was how carefully they were chosen and litigated so each one built on the last in a way that the justices could understand why laws deteriorate against women were unconstitutional and why it should be struck down. As a new decade dawn, she was ready for a change and a move to the other side of the bench. She was largely done with doing the big things that she wanted to do for women. I think she was ready to do Something Different than what she wanted to be and was a judge. She was nominated bide president carter in 1980 to be on the d. C. Circuit. One of the things he felt very strong was changing the face of the u. S. Judiciary. The next 13 years, ginsburg became known for consensus billing with more conservative colleagues and the thoughtful judgment that would lead her from the d. C. Circuit to this Supreme Court. Whats funny is her law clerks always called her r. B. G. When she was on the d. C. Circuit, there was another judge ginsburg so it was never clear of what you were talking about so people got in the habit of calling her r. B. G. No one could imagined her three initials became the vernacular. E vernacular i want to make it absolutely clear. Rioting is not protesting. Looting is not protesting. Its lawlessness, plain and simple. And those who do it should be prosecuted. Fires are burning and we have a president who fans the flames. He cant stop the violence because for years hes fomented it. But his failure to call on his own supporters to stop acting as an armed militia in this country shows how weak he is. Violence will not bring change, it will only bring destruction. Its wrong in every way. If i were president , my language would be less divisive. Id be looking to lower the temperature in this country, not raise it. Donald trump is determined to instill fear in america because donald trump adds fuel to every fire. This is not who we are. I believe well be guided by the words of Pope John Paul ii, words drawn from the scriptures. Be not afraid. Im joe biden and i approve this message. Im joe biden to wear a mask out in public around other people. Sure itll keep you healthy. But more importantly, i wont have to see your happy smiling face. Ugh. And if you dont want to wear a mask, ive just got one thing to tell you. Scram, go away. Ugh. Caring for each other because we are all in this together. So wear a mask and have a rotten day, will ya . Ugh. Reporter when Supreme Court justice, byron white, announced he would retire in 1993, president bill clinton laufrmnc a nationwide search for his replacement. Ruth Bader Ginsburg made the list of candidate but she wasnt at the top. Behind the scenes, her she was the Campaign Manager for her on the Supreme Court. Marty started a path of Gathering Forces to support ruth to be considered. He knew the constituencies that he wanted to weigh in and the Womens Movement was one of them. There was some discussions among the progressive womens Rights Organization about she was their justice but it is absurd thinking about it now. I remember where i was standing when marty called me to say we won. I said what are you talking about . I said we won. He chosen ruth. I am proud to nominate judge Ruth Bader Ginsburg. Judge Ruth Bader Ginsburg made an emotional tribute to her mother who had been denied of education so many years